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Wow, that's a lot of intensity but it is controlled with some beautiful melodic tempo changes throughout the piece. The skin tight dress was working extremely well for me too but you can keep the Herman Munster boots for well....Herman Munster!

I very much enjoy 'alternative' talent like this. Thanks for posting this up. I get my inspiration from videos like this.

Vkgoes wild - The girl that inspired me to spend £3k on a new piano (including equipment) =( and start playing again =D. My idol when it comes to piano playing and I was very surprised before when she responded quite promptly to emails regarding settings for the piano, very friendly.

Rostosky I don't want to give the impression I know her because I dont, its just she was kind enough to get back to me and tell me the piano setting she was using where as i'm pretty sure most others of her talent wouldn't have bothered replying.

Rostosky
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Okay dokey, then we are from your neck of the woods, talking of where is the piano on this ship...... john james in carmarthen has a fold away cramer piano that was on scots ship on the polar expedition, its a real cute little thing fully restored AND with provenance naturally.

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She's really great - but are you sure that was Metallica and not one of the Hungarian Rhapsodies?

Trap

I'd rather see her play barefoot - a lot sexier!

Trap! No, no, no, no....Barefoot?Oh geez, that's such a redneck thing to do!Come on, you're not from Mississippi, are you?!(no disrespect meant to any other fine PW members from M who are NOT rednecks)

There is something I did in my reply on this thread that is bothering me a little, so I'm going to fix it. Please allow me start over.

As I originally said, Vk plays with incredible intensity. She puts a lot of passion (controlled passion) into her performance which I happen to really like. Furthermore, she follows it up with a compatible and appropriate ensemble for the way she is trying to express herself through her music.

My 'Herman Munster' boots comment was meant as (to me, an obvious joke) since deep-sea diving type boots are probably NOT condoned to play piano with by....well anyone. However, she IS playing with these types of boots on (visually) all while doing a fantastic job with them on.

I should have said something like "As good as you think she is, she's even better to be able to play with shoes like that on' or something to that nature. Even better would probably have been just to keep quiet to begin with. My bad, I screwed up and apologize for that.

And for the record, I usually wear my Dr. Martins ankle high leather work boots when I play piano. They are an extremely well built boot that is very light which uses top grade leather. I actually bought them due to the 'bouncing souls' which they have since this softens up the impact of your step and makes your sore hips a little happier when walking.

She's really great - but are you sure that was Metallica and not one of the Hungarian Rhapsodies?

Trap

I'd rather see her play barefoot - a lot sexier!

Trap! No, no, no, no....Barefoot?Oh geez, that's such a redneck thing to do!Come on, you're not from Mississippi, are you?!(no disrespect meant to any other fine PW members from M who are NOT rednecks)

piano joy - as one who has come to greatly appreciate your intellect and sense of advanced jocularity in the "Les Mis" thread I'm shocked - your unprovoked and rather unkind insinuation directed towards the fine folks of Mississippi is almost as surprising as your oversight of my reference to the works of Metallica as sounding like those of Liszt, which was the real point of the post and the subtle point of the humor intended..

The "barefoot" comment was simply a gratuitous slur directed at those yammering about the pros and cons of the young lady's footware, rather than discussing her pianistic skills...

Trap

Edited to add that the bare foot - depending on it's possessor and their experience and tactile skills - can be a highly stimulating and arousing sensual implement

Note also that true rednecks actually play the keys with their bare feet, not just the pedals

Edited by TrapperJohn (01/06/1307:24 PM)

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piano joy - as one who has come to greatly appreciate your intellect and sense of advanced jocularity in the "Les Mis" thread I'm shocked - your unprovoked and rather unkind insinuation directed towards the fine folks of Mississippi is almost as surprising as your oversight of my reference to the works of Metallica as sounding like those of Liszt, which was the real point of the post and the subtle point of the humor intended..

The "barefoot" comment was simply a gratuitous slur directed at those yammering about the pros and cons of the young lady's footware, rather than discussing her pianistic skills...

Trap

Edited to add that the bare foot - depending on it's possessor and their experience and tactile skills - can be a highly stimulating and arousing sensual implement

Note also that true rednecks actually play the keys with their bare feet, not just the pedals

Dearest Trap, there was no oversight on my part regarding the reference to Liszt; you already put a "smiley face" emoticon next to that point, thus, the "subtle point of humor" was made known.

As for the " intellect and sense of advanced jocularity" comment- BIG KISS AND HUG FROM ME TO YOU (respectfully, of course, as you are married) and I might just print that out, enlarge it, frame it and hang it where all may see!

p.s. I'm not too worried about the fine folk in Mississippi....I'm not sure they have pianos there....hmmmm.

K Mr. SuperHunky, we wanna see you in your sexy Dr. Martins in a sexy tight outfit playing piano too!

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'Cause we want to know if you are REALLY SuperHunky or just wish you were!

First off ladies, stop fighting as there's plenty-O-man cake to go around. hehe.

Now I can assure you that I am the real deal. I even have a cape. Well, at least I used to but Mrs Hunky wrecked it with Goof-Off using it to get tar spots of the wheels of the car. [She thought it was an old towel which it actually was but to me it was so much more!].

Anyway, you never know if someday you'll see some Speedo wearing Llama rancher playing piano on Youtube. Crazier things have happened.

As for the " intellect and sense of advanced jocularity" comment- BIG KISS AND HUG FROM ME TO YOU (respectfully, of course, as you are married) and I might just print that out, enlarge it, frame it and hang it where all may see!

But these attributes of yours should be obvious to even the most casual of observers...and you really don't have to be too awfully respectful

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Good grief! as an aside if anyone can guess what caused the foot in the picture of the foot to look as bad as it does, well there is no prize, but you may be very surprised....

A clue, it is not caused by frostbite, and neither is it caused by direct injury, ie a piano being dropped on the foot.

Answers not on a postcard.....

Double good grief! Only you, Rossy, can switch the direction of a thread 90 degrees (and I'm not talking temperature).

Ok, my guess: it's your foot ('cause I notice a date on the bottom of the picture as if it were a privately taken photo) and the blue necrosis/blistering result is from trying to wear a pair of high heels. Please leave this dangerous activity to us gals!

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In all seriousness, this foot was taken from google images and it is ( thank gawd) not my foot at all.This was actually a clinical case study of someone who had been taking warfarin, it is indeed a potential side effect in some folk.

I know quite a few folk who are taking warfarin, parents and the like and was surprised that no one had (a.) ever mentioned this possibility or (b.) had never been told this was a possibility.

My heels are comfy.

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I was hoping to see a little more music on this thread. Unfortunately ( I say unfortunately as I do like the odd surprise) the ostentation of Mr R and a few of his diciple's has greatly paraded itself instead

K Mr. SuperHunky, we wanna see you in your sexy Dr. Martins in a sexy tight outfit playing piano too!

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'Cause we want to know if you are REALLY SuperHunky or just wish you were!

First off ladies, stop fighting as there's plenty-O-man cake to go around. hehe.

Now I can assure you that I am the real deal. I even have a cape. Well, at least I used to but Mrs Hunky wrecked it with Goof-Off using it to get tar spots of the wheels of the car. [She thought it was an old towel which it actually was but to me it was so much more!].

Anyway, you never know if someday you'll see some Speedo wearing Llama rancher playing piano on Youtube. Crazier things have happened.